Consolidation & Settlement
Consolidation & Settlement
Consolidation & Settlement
SETTLEMENT
EXPERIMENTS ON CONSOLIDATION AND
SETTLEMENT
Method of compaction
Expulsion of
the water
Voids
Solids
Settlement of Soil
Total Soil Settlement =
Elastic Settlement + Consolidation
Settlement
Stotal = Se + Sc
ELASTIC SETTLEMENT OR
IMMEDIATE SETTLEMENT
Secondary Consolidation
Volume change is due to the rearrangement of
the soil particles
PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION
PRIMARY CONSOLIDATION
SECONDARY CONSOLIDATION
SETTLEMENT
Soil's response to the Loading
Type1:
No possibility of stress being large enough to
exceed the shear strength of the soil. (But the
strains lead to serious problem leading to
displacement of individual grains causing
settlements within soil mass).
Type2:
Danger of shearing stresses exceeding the shear
strength of soils. (stability problems)
OEDOMETER TEST
(CONSOLIDOMETER)
COEFFICIENT OF COMPRESSIBILITY
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